There's something wrong with the girls at St. Joan's Academy...
One day, everything is normal. Boys, college applications, grade point averages. Then Clara, the most popular girl in school, collapses in class with what appears to be a seizure. But afterward, she continues to have tics, and her speech is strange. One by one, other girls begin to get sick, but their symptoms are different from Clara's. They suffer from things like total hair loss, constant shaking, and coughing up strange, inedible items. The community is in fear, and the media blows the situation up and exacerbates the hysteria.
Colleen, who hasn't been infected yet, is studying The Crucible in class, but hasn't done her assigned reading yet. She starts to get mysterious text messages encouraging her to read it, and when she does, she thinks she may have figured out the mystery of the illness at St. Joan's.
The story is told in alternating perspectives, from modern day teen girls, to the girls who accused the innocent citizens of Salem during the infamous Witch Trials. An interesting new twist on a fascinating time in our nation's history.
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